Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Poland and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Can to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Maurizio. All the underground hits.
All Boogie Down Productions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aural Exciters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alice Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Vogues,
Sexual Harrassment,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Simply Red,
Schoolly D,
Shoche,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pantytec,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Loose Ends,
Public Image Ltd.,
Moby Grape,
Avey Tare,
The Tremeloes,
Chrome,
Sex Pistols,
Minnie Riperton,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Amon Düül II,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Monks,
Tommy Roe,
Big Daddy Kane,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lakeside,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Country Joe & The Fish,
June Days,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Pantaleimon,
Jerry's Kids,
David McCallum,
Marmalade,
The Skatalites,
Roy Ayers,
Laurel Aitken,
Fat Boys,
PIL,
Eden Ahbez,
Cal Tjader,
Stiv Bators,
Lightning Bolt,
D'Angelo,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Skarface,
The Toasters,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Misunderstood,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Delta 5,
Rakim,
Kerrie Biddell,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Cramps,
Altered Images,
The J.B.'s,
Anthony Braxton,
Derrick Morgan,
Harmonia,
Joy Division,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.